AaronS

Guy007

FBI director, J.Edgar Hoover spied on American citizens for 50+ years. Our civil liberties were not compromised then;nor will those cherished liberties be compromised in this age of terrorism in which spying is necessary and the civil liberties argument must indeed take a back seat. And too,spying has occurred in this great nation since the Republic was established in 1776 to enable us to cherish our civil liberties and protect us from evil.

AaronS

AaronS

“Clapper was asked directly by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?” “Clapper's lying answer was "No, sir.”

Ask a direct question, gives a direct, specific answer but that’s summarizing. Amazing given the outrage, and rightfully so, when the rights stealing Patriot Act was passed but now that a Democrat is in office, it’s ok.

Suttle

Congress led by President Bush and Vice President Dick (the torturer)Cheney) has only itself to blame when it passed the Patriot Act. That one law shredded our cherished Bill of Rights. The question for us as a republic now is how much liberty are we willing to forfeit in order to increase our level of safety? How many bombings or other acts of terror are we willing to tolerate each year in order to restore our Bill of Rights? No matter how much oversight an agency has, with this kind of power there will always be abuses, "Power be gets power" as they say...The reality is that in the new normal that there will always be acts of terror at some level.